Stockholm, Aug. 23.
Throughout Scandinavia all other events are completely overshadowed; by the drama of the frozen North, the discovery of the bodies Andree and Strinberg and of the skeleton of the third member of the expedition, Knut Fraenkel.
Conjectures, "speculations, remind iscences and interviews are pour forth in an unending stream, filling many square miles of newsprint, All radio stations in Northern Norway are frantically endeavouring to locate the whaler near the expedi: tion vessel Bragvaart, which unfortunately carries no' wireless.
Numerous newspaper correspandents are descending upon the town of Tromsoe and there is much scheming for the first interview with Dr. Horn, the chief of the Norwegian expedition aboard the Bragvaart, who made the sensa-Meanwhile the the surviving relatives of the dead men and upon the skipper of the Norwegian whaler Temhingen, Gustav Jensen, who brought back} the news and, having witnessed the transfer of the bodies aboard the Stockholm, Aug. 22
It is concluded that the balloon did not crash and that at least the: three men survived the descent for! many months and perhaps years, because they apparently reached a cache prepared teforchand and were therefore not siftering from Jack of provisions for some time.
This would also explain the legentl Jong eutrent amongst the Esqui-
Bragvaart is so far the only source of the details of the discovery which was made on August 6.
According to Capt. Jensen, the exceptionally mild weather in the Axctic this year and the con-Jsequent fact that the snow melted to unusual depths, is, responsible for the discovery' the locality Jhaving often been passed by pelt-hunters and explorers who never!
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